Ex-Army officer gets prison for taking $253,000 in gratuities

Gifts, cash amounted to $253,000

A retired Army lieutenant colonel from Cibolo has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for taking $253,000 in gratuities from contractors at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, a supply hub for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that was rife with corruption.

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